you can drive a tank (or a 97,000 ton aircraft carrier for that matter), but not a toyota?
Yeah, being a 16 year old pimping beer and driving Dad's car is exactly like going to the military, being trained, and being "free" to do as you please. LOL
I've only been able to find a few (dated) TR's from this route on Maude. It seems most do the N face.
I was curious if this is because the Entiat Icefall has melted out so much that it's changed the character of the route for the worse? Has anyone climbed the route or taken a look at it within the last few years?
TIA.
thought you resented the state telling you how to live your life?
IF such a scheme resutled in fewer deaths, maybe it's worth the loss of freedom - seems just daft if it only defers deaths...
Leave it up to a vote then. Those between 18 and 21 decide if they'd prefer to drink or drive. Tyranny of the majority, yeah, but fuck, I'd bet they vote for beer.
learning how to drink before you have access to a car is so important, thankfully I started early, otherwise I might've wrapped my parents car around a tree, or at the very least gotten a DUI.
drinking age at 16, driving at 18. needs to happen.
beer 16
hard liquor 18
driving 21
Glad someone caught that... ;-)
I thought the same thing, but it seemed like that was only happening in the Paradise parking lot.
I only saw tourons in the parking lot. :-)
Good to see you post again Pandora!!!
I was only pointing out that avy was not "good". It's up to each of us to decide what the risk/reward balance is. I almost went for it myself (C2C, Saturday night with an alpine start). Good luck on future climbs!
Sandy Headwall was my objective as well. We decided a 5 hour drive was not worth it with the forecast making a turnaround possible if not probable (due to snow conditions).
The avalanche forecast was for "considerable" on S aspects above 6000 feet, as I recall.
NWAC defines considerable as:
"Dangerous avalanche conditions. Careful snowpack
evaluation, cautious route-finding and conservative
decision-making essential."
No, I didn't. But then again what I looked at for about 4 hours was the tips of my skis. ;-)
The wind was wicked at Muir... at least 40 mph. Good day for kiting - at least above 8500.
I headed up there yesterday. The skinning was pretty good, especially above 8000. It was less crowded than usual on such a nice day. The snow was great.
Maybe a few cc.com'ers were there too and passed me on the way up? :-)